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Tuesday morning I misplaced my wallet. I looked in every logical and illogical place that it could be, but as of last night I had not found it. This morning, I got a call from J.Sarr telling me that one of the landscaping guys found it in the grass at the church. I know I looked a lot of places, but in the grass was not one of them.

It was a few days of committing the whole situation over to the Lord. I knew that He knew where it was, why I lost it, and what He wanted me to learn through it. I only needed to trust the Lord. I know that even if I never found my wallet, that God would be entirely faithful, but in His abundant grace allowed me to find it and nothing was missing from it.

On a much more serious note, my friend, Cliff Ames, recently lost his mother to cancer. I know his family would appreciate prayer.

I want to draw your attention to two women who have posted in the last couple days and they have quoted some great men of the past. Both their posts and the great quotations from A.W. Pink and C.H. Spurgeon will do your soul good. The first is by my sister, who posted for the first time in two years on God’s sovereignty and the weather. The second is from my friend, Hannah Johnson, who posted on indwelling sin.

For those of you went to Shepherd’s Conference this year, we heard MacArthur give a great sermon on Luke 21:1-4, which says:

“Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

The typical interpretation of this sermon is that we need to give sacrificially, until it hurts, just like the widow. It isn’t about how much you give, but how much faith you have. MacArthur pointed out that although Jesus points out that the widow gave more than the rich people, Jesus never commends her. He never says that her giving of more was what pleased God or that the disciples should follow her example. Along with this observation, he looks at the passage in light of the recent context, in which Jesus is prophesying the destruction of the current Jewish religious system that had been corrupted by the religious leaders.

The passage then on the widow is not a random lesson on giving, but an example of how the corrupted religion of Judaism stole the last that this woman had to live on. She would go home and die because she had nothing. This is why the temple and the rest of the false religion would be torn down (21:5ff).

I say all that because in my web travels, I came across this site: The Widows Mite. The site offers necklaces with a widow’s mite in them for $200. I find it ironic that these guys are trying to make money off of people based on a story where the widow was getting ripped off. I know this site is not trying to say that you gain favor with God, but it is still a little ridiculous.

My friend, Dan, has a good post on how our actions reveal what we believe. I agree with him when he says, “Watch how a person lives, and you’ll likely find out what they believe.”